Historical Fiction

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Booker Prize in 1989 and was the Sunday Express Book of the Year. It was made into a film in 1995. When a twist of f...

Synopsis Synopsis The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller. Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues h...

Synopsis Synopsis Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Haynes’s piercingly observant all-female retelling of the Trojan War draws compel...

Synopsis Execution by S.J. Parris is a gripping historical thriller set in 1586, featuring the heretic monk and spy, Giordano Bruno. The novel de...

Synopsis An unforgettable recreation of life in wartime, and of the tragic fate of Poland in the 20th Century. A story of sabotage, betrayal &...

Synopsis The Winner of The Orange Prize 2012. Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of Ki...

Synopsis A Mercy is Toni Morrison's ninth novel. It was published in 2008. Set in colonial America in the late 17th century, it is the story of a E...

Synopsis Number 1 Bestseller. Shardlake #6 England, 1546: King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are e...

Synopsis Winner of The Costa Novel Award 2011. An enthralling tale of an extraordinary year in pre-revolutionary Paris from the critically acclaime...

Synopsis The astonishing and epic novel that won the 2013 Man Booker Prize. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the Ne...

Synopsis A gripping historical thriller set in Inverness in the wake of the 1746 battle of Culloden from twice CWA award-winning author S. G. Mac...

Synopsis The Sunday Times Paperback of The Year 2023. In this novel, the bestselling author of Munich and V2 tells the story of the greatest manhun...

Synopsis The Great War took much more than lives. It robbed a generation of friends, lovers and futures. In Freddie Watson's case, it took his belo...

Synopsis Multi-Award Winner. The Red Umbrella is a moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan...

Synopsis Ireland: A Novel by Frank Delaney. Bestselling author Frank Delaney sweeps us off to Ireland with a stunning new novel that captures the...

Synopsis A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice 2019 & The Sunday Times Bestseller. The Doll Factory by Elizabeth MacNeal is the intoxicating story o...

Synopsis The thrilling novel from the No.1 Internationally bestselling author Ken Follett. An epic, addictive historical masterpiece that begins in...

Synopsis From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a love story about one of history's most captivating 'invisible' women: Rachel, the m...

Synopsis A TLS Book of The Year. Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling st...

Synopsis An atmospheric, vibrant and moving tale of pain and passion at the heart of war-torn Spain from Victoria Hislop, the million-copy bestse...

Synopsis In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Barður join a boat to fish for cod. A winter storm surprises them out at sea and Barðu...

Synopsis Vespasian #7. AD 58: Rome is in turmoil once more. Emperor Nero has set his heart on a new wife but to clear a path for her, he must firs...

Synopsis Winner Costa Book Awards 2017. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2018. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's ...

Synopsis The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of breathtaking quests, adventurous detours, and hard-won redemption. Englishmen Charles and Adding...